St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-04-07

through his branch of the legislature on the
neno Oh large majority, and he got 1t by the
naroese hghting and most tireless energy that
my political issue ever drew out or
DAKOTA legislature. Mentzer Is u
ciean-cut man, equally as much
al nome In the swirl of society as he Is on
the legislative floor or in the august presence
OIL court, for he is a lawyer by profession
ana gentleman b; nature. 1t was in the
SOCIAL gatherings that rendered the two
months OF life last winter in Bismarck bear
aoe that this gallant champion did some or
MS pest work for the people who elected
him' Many OF the legislators had brought
their wives to the capital with them, and
10 these ladies Mentzer granted his
profoundest courtesy He danced with them,
cnatted with them. treated them to ysters
and other delioaces peculiar to those pleasant
little anairs of which noble women with
charitable hearts are the authors, and which
do more towards building churches and
establishing missions in those quiet, loosely
hung-together communities OF the West than
the profoundest doctrine of the erudte D.
DIS. He was a social king. His ears were
always willing listeners to the plants OF
charity, and his purse always answered
their appeals. What wonder then That the
women OF the churches and the women or
society looked upon the gay representative
of Mitchell as a sort OF lion whose temper
had been softened by the touch of Christian
love, and whose natural genius had been re-
nned IN the crucible of social harmony! The
women came to respect him and his cause.
He helped them in their undertakings and
they were willing to recprocate. AS a con-
sequence Mentzer had in nearly every
wife of Dakota representative.
firm friend and together they formed
coterie of irresistible lobbyists, who did
more for MentZer's cause when in secret ses-
sion with their better halves than Mentzer
himself did with his arguments and combina-
lions on the floor of the house. In electing
Mentzer mayor of Mitchell the citizens
OF that enterprising, out-reaching lit
tie city may congratulate themselves
IN placing in the executive chair OF their
municipality man able and talented and one
VINO will fight for her interests, first, last and
all the time.
Mrs. ]. d. Lawler was one of the warmest
champions of the court removal bill and she
lent an influence during her stay at the cap
1tal that was anything but gratifying
to the men of Yankton. Mrs. Lawler,
the wife of j. d. Lawler, the council
member from MITCHELL came of honorable
| fighting stock. Her father was Gen. Sturgis.
| for long time located ut Fort Abraham Lin
| coin, and his daughter was reared among men
who were fighters b. profession if not by ma
ture, and it is not strange that her young
blood should catch some of the ardor and en-
thusiasin that marked the military life
in the midst OF which she was born
and developed into womanhood. She looks
| i,nb tha
years had been given up to the discipline of
military life. Tall, straight and as graceful
and supple as willow, with features as
clearly cut as ever fashioned by Grecian
sculptord; eyes as black as night, fearless and
| full or life; hair curled in rich masses of
shining black around perfect head,
| set proudly on pair Of full,
gracefully rounded shoulders, Mrs. Lawler
| is woman whom no man would fail to look at
twice and whom any artist would long to
know and to paint. She watched with care
full interest the fight, as it was desperately
yet quietly waged, and day after day she
would ride through the binding billiards to
the capitol, that she might be on the ground
when the final struggle came. She discussed
the question feariessly and ably with the
members, and through her enthusiasm won
the respect of all with whom she came in
contact. She was of the greatest assistance
| to her husband, and together they made q
noble fight; but from the first the odds were
against them, and when at last the die was
cast and they found that they had lost, they
took their defeat gracefully and without a
| murrnur. After the vote was counted aud it
was shown that the Mitchell bill was lost E
| u. Smith, the victorious Yauktou member,
walked over TO Mrs. Lawler. who sat among
the spectators, and smiling, said:
"Well, we've beat you.''
With flash of her black eyes and a defiant
toss of her head, she replied: ''Yes. but
we'll fight you again two years from now''